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We and my dad just bought another Pye HF10 Mozart Valve Amp
Hey,
We just bought a very old radiogram with suprise suprise a Pye HF10 Mozart Valve amp with a garrard AP 76 turntable and a bargin price of £40 i think the guy was rich because he was driving a bentley and has a ferrari in his garage
i cant wait to try this baby out shame we sold the other one we had
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Pye 'HF-25' are one of my fav vintage tube amps..Originally Posted by dantheman91
Hey,
We just bought a very old radiogram with suprise suprise a Pye HF10 Mozart Valve amp with a garrard AP 76 turntable and a bargin price of £40 i think the guy was rich because he was driving a bentley and has a ferrari in his garage
i cant wait to try this baby out shame we sold the other one we had
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That's a fabulous amp, Dan! All Pye stuff was superb quality. Enjoy!
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
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Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
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I totally love vintage tube amps (British ones), but could never use one
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No chance of getting the Bently for the £40 then…
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Nice one,
i had (it's now with my lad) a hfs20, the stereo version of yours.
its a very nice amp.
when i got it I changed the coupling caps to audio note coppers along with all the preamps caps, put a stepped attenuator in, and zero'ed all the tone controls with resistors (so it could be put back..)
it was transformed.. i took it into the local hi fi shop.. and to better it, the amps where close to 3K ..that was in the late 90's
its still going strong and sounding very well. on the original output valves..
as far as i can tell. and 9 watts is a big amp in my books..
collector and DIY user of old british triode valves
Open baffles / single ended diy px4 and px25 valve amps
I am intent upon MOT'ing my pair this week , might have a play around with V-Caps or perhaps Duelund Alexander's ~
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Before you condemn the AP76 to the tidy tip, I'd advise you to have a go with servicing it and fitting something like a AT120E or cheaper, an AT95E or Rega Carbon. Once it's been de-gunked, especially on the speed change mech and trip-pawls and fitted with a cheap cork mat (Chizzwizard does a great cheap one on fleabay which I use), it can sound very satsfying indeed and not too rumbly either
Lovely amp by the way, but you knew that already
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Ah Roger i just chucked my muck
Eawwwww !Ah Roger i just chucked my muck
You might like this one as well Andre , Pf91's the HF25's slightly older Sibling , these are also on the list of things that never get done .
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